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Pendant in the Shape of a Fish-Tailed Elephant
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Because of water's life-giving properties, animals such as fish and Indian elephants who love the water were considered auspicious. This composite elephant with a playfully raised trunk and a curling fish tail would have been strung as a pendant on a necklace.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit linePendant in the Shape of a Fish-Tailed Elephant, 185–72 BCE. India, Shunga period (185–78 BCE). Gold. The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1973.63
